SPOILERIFIC! Transformers: Age of Extinction - Part Two

Welcome back to the second part of this SPOILERIFIC!.  Yesterday I went into detail about some of the key characters, and found them to be pretty lacking.  In the hopes of finding something redeeming for the movie, I've decided to retrace the steps of the movie in the hopes that it at least tells an interesting story (I'll be glossing-over anything that was covered in the character analysis; refer to Part One for those details).  My findings after the page break (since it was a 3-hour movie, this is a bit of a long one):

!!! WARNING!!!  Spoilers After The Break!!!

SPOILERIFIC! Transformers: Age of Extinction - Part One

Welcome to SPOILERIFIC!  Today's subject will be Transformers: Age of Extinction.  As a note, I will be going in-depth on several plot points, so only read if you have seen the movie or do not care about spoiling the plot of the movie.  Without further ado, let's start the first SPOILERIFIC!

I lamented the other day that I wasn't entirely happy with the newest Transformers movie, and I plan to outline, in detail, why I felt that the movie could have done better.  For the first subject, let's talk about the humans.  Yeah, I know, nobody cares about the humans, but the movie spends most of its time with them, so I should hope that their story is worth the time, right?  Otherwise they could have shaved most of the duration of the movie down to a respectable hour-and-a-half.  After that a brief discussion about the Dinobots, and then tomorrow I will discuss the plot as a whole.

!!!WARNING!!! Spoilers After The Break!!!